A GIS-based policy support tool to determine national responsibilities and priorities for biodiversity conservation

Discussion The standardized determination of national responsibilities and conservation priorities across regions with multiple jurisdictions and administrative borders is an important step to advance and coordinate international conservation efforts. Here, we presented a software tool to assist in the determination of national responsibilities and conservation priorities. We showcased our tool with an example dataset of 258 Asian bird species. Our tool improves geoprocessing procedures for calculating national responsibilities and conservation priorities using a large Fig 9. Conservation priorities for the number out of 258 analyzed species in Asian regions and countries that fall in a certain conservation priority class. BUs = GEnZ. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243135.g009 PLOS ONE GIS-based policy support tool to determine national responsibilities for biodiversity conservation PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243135 December 3, 2020 16 / 23